Saturday, December 18, 2010

Google Explores Our Body With Body Browser

The Google corporation has been providing us with innovative services that enhances our daily lives. What's next? Now their latest project is this, Google Body Browser. It is basically a 3D model of the human anatomy. On the educational front, this tool should be helpful for those involved in biological or medicinal studies. The 3D model is certainly more interesting to look at than the good old 2D diagrams. Moreover, this tool literally allows peeling off the tissues and organs to have a better view at desirable areas of interest. The layers that can be manipulated are the skin, muscles, bones, organs, circulatory system, and nervous system.

Upon clicking at the body parts, it will be focused and the name label will appear. The labeling also can be enabled where all the labels are displayed depending on the layer visible as well as the level of detail that you are looking at. If you can't find what you want, you can type in to search at the top right corner of the interface.


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This tool is currently in Google Labs and requires a web browser with WebGL support (Chrome beta, Firefox 4.0b1) in order to play view it. Please do also note that it might take a couple of minutes to load all of the flesh, tissues and organs. Blame the human body for being so complex slow Streamyx connection.



On a side note, there is no option to choose the model's gender. Future feature maybe?

Checkout Body Browser now!

Source: Gizmodo